[bballfan15]

TitanKnight, on 01 September 2010 - 08:32 AM, said:

Luers has become a perrenial favorite up North, Youve got to consider them a threat. Tipton has alot coming back and Id say has a good chance of breaking through the 2A door to get to Park Tudor, who has Yogi, a solid movie in from Cathedral, and 2 stud freshman. The real question is who in 2A south can compete with them?

Luers will still be solid but losing Thomas and with Mullen not playing will hurt quite a bit.. I still expect them to be tough though with the Blackmons, Sorg, and Knapke. Park Tudor will probably roll to state in the South but the North will be a battle with Luers, Tipton, Guerin, Bluffton, and Noll all being really good.

This post has been edited by bballfan15: 01 September 2010 - 01:08 PM

[3PTer]

bballfan15, on 01 September 2010 - 01:07 PM, said:

Luers will still be solid but losing Thomas and with Mullen not playing will hurt quite a bit.. I still expect them to be tough though with the Blackmons, Sorg, and Knapke. Park Tudor will probably roll to state in the South but the North will be a battle with Luers, Tipton, Guerin, Bluffton, and Noll all being really good.

Dwight Richards will be a huge scoring threat and Rogers, Smith, and Kendrick Mullen, a true point guard and Kenny's younger brother, have been members of national AAU championship teams. Kameron Mack was impressive at college exposure camps and has been getting offers outside of D1 schools.

Look for James Blackmon to verbal before the season starts and Evan Blackmon will be at a mid D1 school next season.

This team will have better balance with all the needed ingredients and not so many straight catch and shoot guys around Thomas..

[bballfan15]

3PTer, on 01 September 2010 - 07:50 PM, said:

Dwight Richards will be a huge scoring threat and Rogers, Smith, and Kendrick Mullen, a true point guard and Kenny's younger brother, have been members of national AAU championship teams. Kameron Mack was impressive at college exposure camps and has been getting offers outside of D1 schools.

Look for James Blackmon to verbal before the season starts and Evan Blackmon will be at a mid D1 school next season.

This team will have better balance with all the needed ingredients and not so many straight catch and shoot guys around Thomas..

Who is Richards? Did he play JV last year? I forgot about Mack, he's not a bad player. James Blackmon the freshman is going to verbal somewhere before his freshman season? Who does Evan have offers from?

[3PTer]

bballfan15, on 01 September 2010 - 09:40 PM, said:

Who is Richards? Did he play JV last year? I forgot about Mack, he's not a bad player. James Blackmon the freshman is going to verbal somewhere before his freshman season? Who does Evan have offers from?

He is a 6'4" shooter with a great basketball IQ. He went to Catholic schools through his 7th grade year, and was a starter on Blackmon's National AAU team along with James Jr, the Northrop twins, and Canterbury's Hatch. A Concordia coach then offerered to have his schooling completely paid for if he were to go to Holy Cross (Lutheran - 8th grade), then Concordia Lutheran (9-12th). He wanted to go to Luers but Concordia was paid for so that is where he went. Conflict because he continued to play on a top national traveling AAU team instead of playing in a local Concordia Cadet Cagerz basketball program.

Mack had a breakout summer exposure camp where everything just fell into place and he has been playing with a lot of confidence since. Going head to head against Deshaun everyday for 3 years can kind of wear on you confidence wise. Now he is reaping the rewards of that competition and has offers. How much bigger they get will depend on his senior season.

James Blackmon, 9th, will be giving a verbal to an elite and storied D1 school soon. HOT commodity to say the least. Could graduate with Mount like field goal shooting percentages!
No kidding.

Evan's offers from SWAC schools, IPFW, and gaining momentum with other schools wanting to watch senior season after some strong AAU performances. He will surprise many this year as he no longer has to play 2nd and 3rd or 4th option. Thomas was obviously fantastic scoring 3,018 points (29.9 ppg) on only a career average of 21.79 shots per game. What people don't realize is that Lawrence Barnett and Evan scores over 1,000 points also. 5,000+ points out of 3 players on the same team has probably never been done before in Indiana.

Defensively Luers should be faster overall and really get after it defensively. It will be fun.

This post has been edited by 3PTer: 02 September 2010 - 02:11 PM

[cutlerballer]

True last 3 years they have got crushed but they have never had a 6'7 three man 6'9" skilled center and a player transfer to their school who is 6'4" with outside and inside ability plus the other 2 guards are returning starters the 2 guard shooting 45 % from three last year and the point guard shooting 64% from the field but they will probably not make any noise again.

bballfan15, on 31 August 2010 - 08:19 PM, said:

Northwestern is 3A in basketball and I don't know how Carroll would be a surprise team. They will probably win their Sectional again and get crushed in Regionals.

This post has been edited by cutlerballer: 02 September 2010 - 04:59 PM

[bballfan15]

cutlerballer, on 02 September 2010 - 04:26 PM, said:

True last 3 years they have got crushed but they have never had a 6'7 three man 6'9" skilled center and a player transfer to their school who is 6'4" with outside and inside ability plus the other 2 guards are returning starters the 2 guard shooting 45 % from three last year and the point guard shooting 64% from the field but they will probably not make any noise again.

The Miller kid is 6'7 now? hmm. Who is the transfer? I do think they'll have a solid year and probably win Sectionals but I don't think they can compete with a Luers, Tipton or Guerin.

[StephanT]

Southwood should win their sectional....Lewis Cass will be tough. Wont comment on Regionals cause I dont know squat about any teams but my own.